Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've really got to be one to appreciate the spirit of the place but pop in to see what a real pub should be like . |
| 2 | Thrill-seeking impulses led them to many momentary and immediate adventures , and it was this period of his life he referred to when he said he had never been in an orgy of more than three people , although he tried ineffectively to promote it a time or two . |
| 3 | They called us all down to see what a million pounds looked like . |
| 4 | So I settle down to write her a letter explaining my erratic behaviour . |
| 5 | Picasso had abandoned the use of a consistent light source a year earlier only to reinstate it a few months later in the paintings done in Paris during the winter . |
| 6 | But I notice , little madam , you were pleased enough to find yourself a good Catholic … . ’ |
| 7 | Maybe he was still small enough to find it a novelty . |
| 8 | Despite this , his marks were high enough to win him a sought after place in the Indian Army . |
| 9 | ‘ Just enough to buy myself a wagon , lumpkin . |
| 10 | On one birthday her friends dubbed together to buy her a necklace decorated with a ‘ D ’ for Diana . |
| 11 | The bridge party duly clubbed together to buy him a dinner jacket . |
| 12 | When the householders learned that the completion of the contract marked the start of Ron 's retirement after 35 years , they clubbed together to buy him a carriage clock and bottle of whisky as a thank you gift to remember them by . |
| 13 | Aim for a list that give the widest possible choice and price range ; whilst there will be friends and colleagues who will club together to buy you a present , others will want to buy something on their own . |
| 14 | She walks from her flat at the wrong end of Ladbroke Grove , along the Harrow Road , under various stretches of motorway , past the Metropole Hotel where she calls in to buy herself a drink in the Cosmo-Cocktail Bar ( she is perversely fond of the Metropole Hotel ) , and then through various increasingly handsome although gloomy back streets , until she arrives at the arranged corner . |
| 15 | At that stage in his career no one was looking for a hit-machine : the longer heads realised that it was a difficult job to scale the face of Broadway — as it was in the West End — with so few footholds and even fewer helping ropes dangling down to give you a lift . |
| 16 | Better to give them a good life here than to let them suffer in the vague hope of some better afterlife . ’ |
| 17 | But friends assured me there was more to this grand range of mountains than my experience had suggested , and so to give it a chance I went back to climb Cairn Gorm properly , giving the bridies as wide a body swerve as possible . |
| 18 | Would er d d during that period af immediately after , would anyone else come in to give her a hand ? |
| 19 | I brought you in to give you a present . |
| 20 | Erm I do n't represent Mr and Mrs as you know , although they 've been in to give us a witness statement . |
| 21 | Grey eyes swept the outfit which had caused her some qualms , but it was modest compared to Nicky Kai 's , the oyster-coloured chiffon shirt collarless and slit to a point between her breasts , loose enough to leave them a mystery only occasionally glimpsed when she moved , dark nipples a shadowy suggestion . |
| 22 | All of these recommendations , however , are only to give you a first taste of the scope of theatrical writing . |
| 23 | It 's best run full screen , as well , since running it in a window seems only to give you a partial view of the full-screen image , and no scroll bars appear to allow you to see what 's happening in the bits that are n't shown . |
| 24 | Next you come to the dark ride where history takes on a life of its own and light , movement and sound come together to give you a realistic living picture of the town and its history . |
| 25 | Normally I er put a banana and a strawberry together to give it a different taste . |
| 26 | The look in his eyes told her quite clearly he did n't believe a word of it , and she struggled to maintain a bland , ingenuous expression on her own features , wondering if even he could be cruel enough to brand her a liar . |
| 27 | I 'll make a good job of it ; enough to put me a county or two away . ’ |
| 28 | 11 I lift it gently to give her a ride and a feeling the perch is part of me and not the cage . |
| 29 | Their desire to escape the rain might hurry their attack — not much but enough to give him a small advantage . |
| 30 | But enough to give them a week in Devon . ’ |